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The was an interesting premise marred by a very bad concept. It tried to play with the audience in terms of who mama fairy should end up with. Bad idea. Very very bad idea. Romantic stories are built on the feelings one or both of the characters has for the other. Second male and female leads are viewed as interlopers and the audience is uneasy whenever they are together, seeing their closeness as a threat to what the heart’s desire of the characters. If what mama fairy wants changes, it proves to the audience that her feelings can’t be trusted. Once that happens the story falls apart and the audience looses interest because the they no longer have any faith in what the character desires. This is the flaw in this story and a big part of the reason why it got such low ratings despite being an interesting idea.

Even creating the suspense over who she should end up with is dangerous and flawed. If she pursues person A, but then goes in movie dates with person B and has in-depth personal discussions, it makes it seem as if she is betraying person A through her active participation in a developing closeness to person B. Very bad idea. It would have been a far better story the person mama fairy wanted to be with was crystal clear from the start and never changed.

Which tells you it’s not always the actress or actor, it’s often the writer and director, and their vision of how the part should be played.

I think how you view the age difference depends on whether you think maturity is a consequence of experience or biology. I tend favor the latter (based on observation and how much hormones play a role in 20 year old behavior.) Which means a man who has lived 500 years, to me is still an emotional 20 year old if he never went through the biological changes a 50 year old goes through. So the age difference didn’t bother me.

I would say yes, except you’d be missing the better of the two stories (in terms of plot.) In some ways they have problems together or stand-alone.

I’m always torn by this kind of comment, can he really not act, or did the writer and director never really call upon him to show any emotional range?

In a way, they were both noble idiots, which made it hard to sympathize with the second male lead. Perhaps a better choice would have been for him to tell his lifelong friend and current girlfriend that he had cancer and let her decide if she wanted to be with him. As it was, he put her through too much for me to want them to be together.

On many levels this was a great drama. The female lead was fun and quirky and the male lead the perfect serious foil for her antics. The humor was outrageous. It had an interesting plot that sometimes became very suspenseful, yet it never lost its sense of humor. That’s saying something in a world of dramas that are comedy for a few episodes, then turn into an angst ridden melodrama in he last half. While this one, did have moments of melodrama, it maintained that quirkiness from the first episode to the last.

The problem with it is that as a stand-alone story it isn’t satisfying. The male lead never really seems to come around, making it seem like a one sided love story from start to end. This made it seem like it was designed to be a two part story. Yet when combined with the sequel it had major problems, not the least of which is the change of male and female leads. Beyond that the stories didn’t mesh on many levels. The biggest problem is that the female lead seemed to agree with the male leads actions in this story, yet in order to reset their relationship for the sequel,, they made her start out the second story with some major resentment, as if she hadn’t gone along. Beyond that the sequel had a plot that was far more jerky with many moments that didn’t work well.

I can’t really recommend this as a stand-alone story, because it doesn’t really stand on it’s own. If you can look past the cast change, and roll your eyes at the disconnects and inconsistencies in the sequel then you may very well find the two together to be a fun and highly enjoyable romantic comedy.

This was a fun show, but you have to get past the absurdity of the premise. For example, a girl pretending to be a guy (which she did a great job at) in a male sports team that never changes clothes in the locker room. Other than stuff like that, the show loved to trot out all the tropes, but spin them in fun and entertaining ways. And while it did get heavy at points it never left you hanging for long before the angst was resolved. All-in-all, a light-hearted show that you simply can’t take very seriously,

So much fun. I’m watching Zhang Ruo Nan now in “Everyone Wants To Meet You” and she is a good solid actress. But in “Love Is All” she is one of China’s treasures. She is a comic genius where everything from her expressions, to her body language, timing and delivery hits home to hilarious effect. Zhang Hao Wei Is wonderful too, but more as the comic straight man to her zany antics. I wish I could see this cast, and especially Zhang Ruo Nan in more comedies just like this one. Lighthearted and tons of fun..

The scene of the miscarriage was, for me, amazingly well acted. I felt like XiYi’s world really was crumbling apart. I found the whole online persona, vs XiYi, vs Dylan a bit scatterbrained. She clearly still loved XiYi, yet is more excited than she has been in three years to meet an online stranger? That and the whole misunderstanding was unbelievable. It wasn’t believable that she never questioned how he could repeatedly say one thing then hours later do something so completely contrary. And we had ten episodes where he never questioned why she was insisting he lied and she never told him what the lie was. It was like they were deliberately trying not to say the one sentence that would have cleared up the whole misunderstanding.

I think the ending wasn’t enough given what came before. I think we needed more to be convinced where would be no more misunderstandings. Some remorse on her part for misunderstanding him, which led to their baby dying and three years apart. Some commitment to never doubt him again. We needed to believe she would have more faith in him in the future or what’s to stop her from running away again. At least from him he admitted the divorce agreement was the worst idea of his life, and he knew he suffered because of it. Beyond that, a little healing would have improved the end, as would a baby to show that they eventually did become the family they both dreamed of.

The first episodes were well done and I felt the male and female leads did a great job. However, the last 10 episodes ruined it.

It starts with the most improbable thing imaginable, the husband going on “one last date” with his ex. Why would he do that? It was dumb. Nothing bad happens, but the whole scheme starts with the date and it made no sense. A huge misunderstanding breaks them apart, but from the female leads point of view, the misunderstanding would have been unbelievable given it was the opposite of what the male lead said and did repeatedly, up to hours before.

After, she shuts him out and never gives him a chance to explain, because a sentence or two would clear it up so we have to make the female lead so upset she won’t even say one word about it. Again, most women would demand to know why he said one thing wind did another. Then we are treated to 10 episodes of the male lead asking what he did wrong with no clear response, because a response would have ended the misunderstanding and the show. At the same time, the female lead keeps saying the male lead lied, without him once asking “when did I lie, what did I lie about?” The answer to which would have cleared everything up. It seemed artificial and contrived and not consistent with the characters.

I like both the leads and enjoyed them immensely in “the eternal love 1 & 2,” but in this we just get 10 episodes of pointless angst. I don’t think writers understand that two or three episodes is enough, adding seven more doesn’t make the drama deeper or the reunion sweeter it just drags and feels horrible. On top of it all, the show ends practically the moment the misunderstanding is cleared with no good scenes to counteract all the unending angst and finish things on an upbeat note. Instead it feels rushed and unsatisfying.

It wasn’t quite as bad as that. She did have control over Momo to a degree, and she did things for him because she wanted to care for her pet. She did grab into him and make him stay that first night. AHe really did have immense respect for her, but it took time for that to unfold and the reasons to be revealed.

What bothered me was the way she did things with Momo that she knew would have deeply hurt Hasamiri, the man she was sleeping with, if he knew about them. She had been cheated on so how could she then turn around and cheating on him in that way. And not just cheat on her boyfriend, but even after she was his fiancé. It seemed really odd and out of character. If she really needed Momo then don’t start dating Hasamiri. If you really want Hasamiri then have a moral conscience to get rid of Momo.

I found it highly morally uncomfortable that she would have sex with one man one night and go home and hug and cry on the shoulder or panic at the thought of not being with the other man the next day.

Big time, major league, two timing.

It doesn’t taint the entire series, but a lot of it. Her suggestion he stay as a pet seemed bizarre as did the way she did everything for him and he just sponged off of her.

So much of this show just seemed confused to me. The way Sumire violently rejected Takeshi kissing her but dated, seemed to love, and had sex many times with Hasumi, the second male lead, made it feel like we should be rooting for her to get past her insecurity and get rid of the pet. In fact, it greatly strains credibility that she didn’t get rid of Momo the day she started dating. Nobody who has just been cheated on is so self-unaware as to be emotionally cheating on her boyfriend and not move to correct the situation right away. Then the way she suddenly realized her feeling for Takeshi seemed bizarre given the strength of her feeling for Hasumi. I can’t necessarily fault the concept, but the execution left me scratching my head at far too many points. I can’t really recommend this one.

I don't understand the moral conundrum. For their to be a moral problem it has to be rooted in something. What is it? What makes it morally wrong for a 30 year old to be interested in a 17 year old? Would the same apply if it were a 30 year old woman and a 17 year old man? Is it that the 30 year old might take advantage of the youth and inexperience of the 17 year old? Doesn't that only apply if the 17 year old isn't mature enough to deal with the attention in a mature way? I didn't see the slightest sign of that in this drama.

Putting that aside, she was a 30 year old. Who says maturity is a side effect of experience. It's more likely a side effect of biological changes that temper passions as we grow old.

When it comes down it, the age of maturity is purely arbitrary. It is an age where society has said "most people" are able to make mature, adult decisions. For some it is too young, other's too old. I know 40-year-olds that still live off of their parents. And on a historic basis, 17 would be quite old to get married, thus the Romeo and Juliette comment. Then again, they were forced to be more mature at a younger age.. So I find the whole teenager part a bit arbitrary.

The bottom line, is unless the 30 year old teenager acted immature, or was incapable of making mature 30-year-ol decisions, I don't see the problem. Neither seemed to apply in this drama, thus I can't find any moral issue.

Hated the ending of the Korean one. All that pain and suffering to be together only to wind up not being together.

1. Japan (loved it, especially the over-the-top ending.
2. Taiwan
3. Didn't like the Korean one at all and even lost interest part way through when she developed a stronger bond of affection, support, love and even emotional and physical intimacy with the second male lead. It convinced me her lover for the male lead had no permanence when every single time, her pain was forgotten in a couple hours crying on his shoulder, hugging and hanging out with her "soulmate."

I probably should’ve be so flippant. I get your point that Romeo and Juliet is a bad example. Yet my point stands. The idea that a seventeen year old can’t be mature, responsible and committed enough to be in a relationship is just wrong. By the same logic people, should wait until they are 50:or 60 to marry because a 30 year old isn’t nearly as stable and mature as a 60 year old.